/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3000886
Communicating the theory was the critical part here. You need to share results with your peers, that means unrestricted access. If you say you've found something revolutionary are you really going to be taken seriously if you just invite people over rather than communicate results directly? Who the fuck does that?

>>3000872
>no need
you need*

>>3000867
And how would you incorporate your findings in a broader theory without communicating it to your peers around the world?

>>3000863
Where the fuck else would we put the MRI scanner but in a lab? And the EEG equipment, and computers for behavioral experiments and data analysis. Yes, we have labs. There are pharmacological studies as well (which use pharmaca as behavioral manipulation), and for that no need medical facilities.

>>3000855
No, it isn't. It's simply a different level of study.

>>3000852
>pscyhology
psychology*

>>3000846
That's the point of cogntive pscyhology/neuroscience. Investigating the mind-brain relationship. How do neural processes give rise to perception and cognition etc?
>>3000847
Publication is part of the scientific process.

>>3000835
Because I was bored. I tried starting threads about interesting psychological or neuroscientific phenomena before, but actual science gets ignored on 4chan. A thread like this keeps me busy for a while.

>>3000823
>>Visit a lab kiddo
A psychology lab, obviously.
>neuroscientist ≠ Psychology
Yes, I know that, thank you. There is however vast overlap. Cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience are practically indistinguishable.

>>3000791
>I instantly began wondering as it seems to be the overlap of sensations if the close relationship between gustatory and taste perception share a common mechanism to the areas of overlap in synaesthesia you guys say you've identified?
I'm not too sure about olfaction and gustation, but yes these two overlap in experience. What we showed specifically was that people with grapheme-color synaesthesia showed increased white matter connectivity within the inferior temporal cortex, which correlated with the strength of behavioral measures of synaesthetic experience. Based on that you could hypothesise the gustatory and olfactory cortices are more densely (and directly) interconnected than other sensory areas. I'm not sure, but that might have been investigated already.

>>3000792
I co-authored on those papers, yes. And if you don't publish, then I'm sorry but you're not a scientist. Publication is an essential part of science because else you would circumvent peer review and withhold your colleagues the possibility of giving criticism. You might be an applied scientist, but that's another story.

>>3000786
>when did a chemist ever try to argue that chemistry is a real science?
I never had to defend it outside of 4chan. Ever. I said it like 4 times in this thread already, I'm not a psychologist but a neuroscientist. I work with a lot of psychologists though.

Also, don't judge a field based on a HIGH-SCHOOL experience. Seriously kiddo, visit a lab sometime.

>>3000760
That is not what constitutes experimental psychology. Seriously, look it up, because this discussion is pointless.

>>3000736
>Care to share yours?
Sure, we found out people with synesthesia show increased white matter connectivity between areas involved in individual synesthetic experiences, which was a world first. We showed covert visual attention can be driven by non-spatial auditory cues, and expanded on those findings by showing the individual specific white matter tracts which mediate this effect. We showed the human nucleus accumbens becomes phase synchronized with its contralateral counterpart after errors in perceptual decision making, and we could predict behavioral performance on based on the strength of synchronization.

Two of these got published in nature, and one in frontiers of human neuroscience. Do you have any publications?

>>3000719
I see the problem here, you didn't follow the instructions:
>Also, please look up the difference between experimental- and clinical psychology if you don’t know it.

I'm sorry you had a bad experience with a clinical psychologist, but that doesn't mean the field in its entirety is crap. I'm specifically arguing for experimental psychology here, because that's where my expertise lies.

What are we? 12 here?

Gardener guy, can you please take your shit outside and start your own thread? You're not adding to the discussion.

>>3000643
Would you like me to describe some projects I worked on, because I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here.

>>3000638
What does it matter where double blind experiments originated? Of course it's possible in psychological experiments.

>>3000629
Thanks for the support

>>3000556
And not a single argument was given that day.

>>3000528
I'm saying that criterion is not valid. Why the fuck wouldn't you be able to test predictions which follow from hypotheses involving self-report? If you say that's the case, show me an example, because I can't find any.
>>3000532
The psychologists are usually better educated on mathematical modeling of cognitive constructs. I'm an experimentalist and test hypotheses which follow from such models. There are however also neuroscientists in my department who got into cognitive modeling and psychologists who became experimentalists. It doesn't really matter what education you finished, as long as you took the appropriate courses in grad-school.

>>3000507
Simply wrong. My work is pretty much exactly the same as what my co-workers who happened to have studied psychology do.

>>3000512
Shifting the burden of proof are we?

>>3000485
Could you try forming an actual argument rather than presenting your statement as fact?

>>3000478
The distinction is a real one and not arbitrary. I'm a neuroscientist myself by the way (although I work for a psychology department). There's no competition between psychology and neuroscience as fields. They complement each other.